Para Para
Para Para ( Japanese パ ラ パ ラ ) is a fast dance style that originated in Japan in the 1980s and is particularly popular with young people in Asia and America.
Para Para is a group dance in which the participants perform synchronized, predetermined movement sequences as individual dancers to the Para-Para music of the same name. Arm movements predominate, but longer step sequences are also possible.
Origin and meaning
Para-Para music developed in Japan in the 1980s from Eurobeat (Italian disco music).
In the early 1990s, the Japanese record company Avex bought the rights to Eurobeat and started the Super Eurobeat series , whose 250 CDs now regularly top the Japanese charts .
Para-Para events take place regularly, especially in Japanese discos, which were initially critical of Para Para.
Groups and songs
Well-known para-para groups:
- Para Para All Stars : A professional Para-Para group founded by AVEX in 1999 thatregularly releases CDs and DVDsunder the name Para Para Paradise . The PlayStation 2 game of thesame namewas a great success.
- Anipara Kids : , A band known anime -songs in Para-para-style re-edited .
- Initial D : An anime series whose para-para-like soundtrack is particularly popular with para-para groups.
Well-known para-para songs:
- Trauma from Ayumi Hamasaki
- Try Me by Namie Amuro
- Tora Tora Tora by MAX
- Night of Fire by Niko (from Initial D)
- Mickey Mouse March on behalf of Tokyo Disney Resort
- King Kong from Shanadoo . The single also includes dance instructions.
In the 2001 film Para Para Sakura , a color-blind dance teacher from Hong Kong (played by Aaron Kwok ) finds his true love and accompanies her to Japan.